Congratulations to Our 2025 Grand Prize and First Place Winners!
Imersiv, a breakthrough technology that improves audio performance by 100X compared to today’s very best audio equipment for applications ranging from sound engineering to space missions to medical imaging, was named the $25,000 grand prize winner at a live finalist round held November 7 in New York. Click here for the full list of winners. Also see the Top 100 highest scoring entries. Special thanks to our esteemed panel of judges.
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Since Tech Briefs magazine launched the Create the Future Design contest in 2002 to recognize and reward engineering innovation, over 16,000 design ideas have been submitted by engineers, students, and entrepreneurs in more than 100 countries. Join the innovators who dared to dream big by entering your ideas in our 2026 contest opening March 1.
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Special Report spotlights the eight amazing winners in 2024 as well as honorable mentions in each category, plus the top ten most popular entries as voted by our community.
Click here to read moreA ‘Create the Future’ Winner Featured on ‘Here’s an Idea’
Spinal cord injury affects 17,000 Americans and 700,000 people worldwide each year. A research team at NeuroPair, Inc. won the Grand Prize in the 2023 Create the Future Design Contest for a revolutionary approach to spinal cord repair. In this Here’s an Idea podcast episode, Dr. Johannes Dapprich, NeuroPair’s CEO and founder, discusses their groundbreaking approach that addresses a critical need in the medical field, offering a fast and minimally invasive solution to a long-standing problem.
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Thermal Charge Pump (Energy Conversion via Second-Order Quantum Coupling)
One of my primary interests has always been the conversion of low-grade or waste heat, and heat from lightly concentrated solar flux (i.e., temperatures between 100-500 degrees C),
The Challenge
To develop a system for detecting the presence of weevil in mango trees in order to protect them from weevil infestation as well as to medicate them at the earliest. The weevil infestation in mango trees causes serious problems and they decrease the yield of the mangoes produced.
Introduction
This is a presentation of new Railway Greasing devices for noise reduction and prolonging material Time – Life – Cycle as well as train wheel & track.
Stress is a popular topic these days. There is rarely a week that passes without hearing or reading about stress and its deleterious effect on health. The word stress is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as "state of affair involving demand on physical or mental energy.” Work-related stress and mental fatigue mainly blamed on expectations of better performance,
A simpler version of the telescope mounting shown here was first conceived as a father/daughter/son project at a local museum. The components were pre-cut and then later assembled in a class of about 8-10 scopes. This allowed parents and their children to learn how telescopes and mountings worked together.
This system, completely innovative and original, is the normal evolution of a series of machines that, using the principle of interference of static magnetic fields, including the paternity claim, can be used to produce mechanical energy.
In the Major Auto Hemo Therapy (MAHT) an amount of blood is drawn from the patient and put in contact with a therapeutic dose of ozone (O3). Ozone is a gas with a high blood solubility and dissolves quickly into blood, generating a cascade of events which may be beneficial in a number of pathologies,
Emerging electric vehicles require high starting torque smooth running high power tracking motors. Developing such motors is a technological challenge.
Currently, hybrid and electric vehicle use motors with rare-earth permanent magnets in the rotor. This eliminates providing current to the rotor which eliminates power loss, and decreases maintenance.
Product idea: Prototype synthetic bone scaffolds manufactured by selective laser sintering (SLS) using NOVEL BORATE-BASED BIOACTIVE GLASS (BBG) mimicking the structure and mechanical properties of normal healthy trabecular bone tissue and which can be used for trauma repair.
How it works: Medical imaging can provide non-destructive characterization of 3D bone density, structure, connectivity, and mechanical properties.
Asteroids and comets are some of the most accessible sources of space based raw materials and elements, rich with minerals, ores and even water, that can be exploited in-situ toward space architectures and systems development or for delivery to locations including moon, Mars and also the Earth. As proof of concept for a needed critical technology,
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